Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Brian May
On 2017-04-06 15:47, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. > > Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent > changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality > of the package and it was removed from te

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 05:22:25PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > One thing that puzzles me though is that the bug was opened at: "Thu, 23 > Mar 2017 02:17:28 +0100" and the package was auto removed "Thu, 23 Mar > 2017 16:39:09 +" > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858521 > htt

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 12:27:12PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > One thing that puzzles me though is that the bug was opened at: "Thu, 23 > > Mar 2017 02:17:28 +0100" and the package was auto removed "Thu, 23 Mar > > 2017 16:39:09 +" > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:17:26AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. I'm afraid I cannot give my support to this. I'm not involved with release management, so this is just one rando developer's opinion. > Current version in unstable do

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Brian May
On 2017-04-06 15:47, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. > > Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent > changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality > of the package and it was removed from te

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 avril 2017 18:20 +1000, Brian May  : >> Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. >> >> Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent >> changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality >> of the package and it was removed fr

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:05:05AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. > >> > >> Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent > >> changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality > >> of the

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:17:26AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, *filed*, as this very thread shows. It *has* RC bugs. oh, and you seem to miss #856720 which is a open RC bug. > Losing diaspora-installer after putting years long effort wou

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:42:33AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Finally, as Lars pointed out, running > /usr/lib/diaspora-common/scripts/diaspora-download.sh > in postinst is both horrible from a security point of view, plus it's a > policy violation, so that's two more RC bugs. diasporo-install

Bug#859723: ITP: belenios -- verifiable voting system

2017-04-06 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Glondu?= * Package name: belenios Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Stéphane Glondu * URL : http://www.belenios.org/ * License : AGPL-3+ Programming Lang: OCaml Description : verifiable voti

Bug#859735: ITP: muttdown -- Transparently compiles annotated text/plain mail into text/html using the Markdown standard

2017-04-06 Thread gustavo panizzo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gustavo panizzo * Package name: muttdown Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : James Brown * URL : https://github.com/Roguelazer/muttdown * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Transparently compiles an

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Nikolaus Rath dijo [Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:18:57PM -0700]: > >> I have a very different perception > > > > Me too. I guess it depends very much on whether one can afford to buy > > a good laptop which works well with Linux. > > I think there's a pre-requisite that's much harder for a lot of peop

Bug#859748: general: fails to address full 8GiB of DDR RAM on PowerMac G5 (only 5.8GiB)

2017-04-06 Thread Mark G.B.
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently installed 4x1GiB sticks of DDR RAM into my PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz. Apple indicates the maximum amount of RAM supported is indeed 8GiB. The system is fully usable, it runs without problems in any area, pretty much, but I would like to

Bug#859748: general: fails to address full 8GiB of DDR RAM on PowerMac G5 (only 5.8GiB)

2017-04-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:23 -0700, Mark G.B. wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I recently installed 4x1GiB sticks of DDR RAM into my PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz. > Apple indicates the maximum

Processed: Re: Bug#859748: general: fails to address full 8GiB of DDR RAM on PowerMac G5 (only 5.8GiB)

2017-04-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 src:linux 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 Bug #859748 [general] general: fails to address full 8GiB of DDR RAM on PowerMac G5 (only 5.8GiB) Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'src:linux'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #859748 to the same values

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Apr 06 2017, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Nikolaus Rath dijo [Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:18:57PM -0700]: >> >> I have a very different perception >> > >> > Me too. I guess it depends very much on whether one can afford to buy >> > a good laptop which works well with Linux. >> >> I think there's a pre-re

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.04.2017 um 01:07 schrieb Nikolaus Rath: > Maybe I'm just exceedingly unlucky, but I have yet to find a laptop > where all of the following works: > > - Suspend > - Hibernate > - Airplane-mode Hotkey (especially hard apparently) > - Volume Hotkeys > - Brightness Hotkeys > - Suspend/hibernate

Work-needing packages report for Apr 7, 2017

2017-04-06 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1067 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 159 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 07.04.2017 01:58, Michael Biebl wrote: >> - Suspend >> - Hibernate >> - Airplane-mode Hotkey (especially hard apparently) >> - Volume Hotkeys >> - Brightness Hotkeys >> - Suspend/hibernate hotkeys >> - Hot-plug of external monitor > All of the above works flawlessly on my Thinkpad X220 ru

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Chris Lamb wrote: > There's a very active conversation happening on Hacker News right > now entitled «What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?»: > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 There is a followup and some analysis of the thread here: http://bl

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-06 Thread Russell Stuart
On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 09:22 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > Anyway, this discussion prompted me to get off my bum and look at why > unattended-upgrades wasn't working.  Turns out the default install > has "label=Debian-Security", and all these laptops are running > testing.  I guess the assumption t